Realization of slow light in ZnO media

吕毅 Lü Yi, 吴九汇 Wu Jiuhui, 李丽丽 Li Lili

Robert W. Boyd

Hui Cao, Y. Ling, J.Y. Xu +2 more

Summary form only given. Over the past two decades, there has been much progress in the study of light transport in a disordered dielectric medium. Most studies are within the framework of ray optics or wave optics. Quantum statistical properties of light in a random medium have received little attention. To bridge the gap between random media and quantum optics, we conducted an experimental study of photon statistics of random lasers. ZnO nanoparticles with an average diameter of 80 nm are cold-pressed to form a pellet. In the coherent backscattering experiment, the scattering mean free path is measured The frequency-tripled output of a picosecond Nd:YAG laser is used to optically excite the ZnO pellet. The ZnO emission is measured by a spectrometer which is connected to a streak camera.

А. Н. Грузинцев, Vladimir T. Volkov

The feasibility of phase conjugation in excited semiconductor media is shown both theoretically and experimentally. For the first time, phase conjugation of a light wave (nitrogen laser) with a photon energy equal to half the exciton radiative recombination energy in the medium (ZnO epitaxial films) at room temperature is revealed. The spectral dependences of the phase conjugation signal are studied. The quadratic interaction between the electromagnetic and exciton waves in a semiconductor is suggested as a possible mechanism of this effect.